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Monday, 29 December 2008

Desperate (Pastors’) housewives?

After a sweet and most triumphant time with family and friends over Christmas, it’s easy to underestimate the pressures of the job on everyone else at home. I am aware of being insanely lucky in the person I married and the kids we got. I often think of a comment a good friend made years ago when we were discussing a job move — your family are the closest members of the body of Christ — if there is no good news in this to them, there will not be good news in this to anyone else. And in this context, it’s fun to watch a silly wee movie from Florida, h/t Pierre Whalon and Kirk Smith, that therefore comes with heartfelt endorsement from three bishops...

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Child of God by adoption and grace, husband of Lucy, father of five, jumped-up vicar (Area Bishop of Buckingham).
Born Edinburgh. Deacon 1979, Priest 1980, Bishop 2003. Cambridge MA, Oxford DPhil — ‘I am a doctor, but not the kind that helps people.’ I trained for ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall. I have worked in various C of E contexts, urban and suburban, as well as in prison.